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The Language of Others: Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida
Contributor(s): Hélène Cixous | Jacques Derrida
01/03/2005 - 11:00 am
Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous are two of the world’s most celebrated figures in the fields of philosophy and literature. Both occupy crucial positio... read more
Mourning a Lost Father: Avraham Balaban
Contributor(s): Avraham Balaban
07/03/2004 - 3:00 pm
Avraham Balaban’s memoir of his childhood on Kibbutz Huldahweaves together two interrelated stories: a sensitive artist growing up in the pragmatic wor... read more
Reading Group: Shelley Weiner
Contributor(s): Shelley Weiner
07/03/2004 - 3:00 pm
Jewish Book Week presented two opportunities to experience a reading group. Hosted by author Shelley Weiner. On 7 March the group discussed Weeping SuzannahÂ... read more
Fables from the Distant Past: Raphael Loewe
Contributor(s): Raphael Loewe
07/03/2004 - 3:00 pm
Isaac Ibn Sahula’s fables in Meshal haqadmoni comprise a series of debates, rich in contemporary satire, placed in the mouths of animals. Touching o... read more
Behind the Gossamer Wall: Micheal O’Siadhail
Contributor(s): Micheal O'Siadhail
07/03/2004 - 3:00 pm
The Gossamer Wall (2002) is a collection of poetry that bears witness to the trauma of the Holocaust. The result of many years of immersion in the testimonies ... read more
Desert Island Books: Edwina Currie
Contributor(s): Edwina Currie
07/03/2004 - 2:00 pm
In a lively and entertaining final session, Edwina Currie, novelist, diarist and broadcaster, spoke about her life and times, from her orthodox childhood in Liv... read more
The Genius of Joseph Roth: Michael Hofmannn
Contributor(s): Michael Hofmann
07/03/2004 - 1:45 pm
Joseph Roth (1894-1939) was born to German-speaking Jewish parents in Galicia. He was the great elegist of the cosmopolitan, tolerant and doomed Central Europea... read more
The Fab Four: Tracy Chevalier, Jeremy Gavron, Charlotte Mendelson & William Sutcliffe
Contributor(s): Tracy Chevalier | Jeremy Gavron | Charlotte Mendelson | William Sutcliffe
07/03/2004 - 11:00 am
In September 2003 the Jewish Chronicle published its list of the “Fine Nine” most talented young Jewish authors in Britain today. In this sessi... read more
Football Crazy: Simon Kuper, Amy Raphael, Colin Shindler
Contributor(s): Simon Kuper | Amy Raphael | Colin Shindler
07/03/2004 - 10:45 am
In a classic Book Week 3:1 formation, some of the most talented writers on the game discussed the Jewish obsession with football and the most important question... read more
Jacob’s Gift: To be a Jew: Jonathan Freedland
Contributor(s): Jonathan Freedland
07/03/2004 - 12:30 am
Jacob’s Gift is Jonathan Freedland’s family memoir, about Jewishness, identity and belonging. An inquiry into the inheritance he is giving to his ... read more
Building the Dream: Zvi Efrat, Ilan Troen & Eyal Weizman
Contributor(s): Zvi Efrat | Eyal Weizman | Ilan Troen
06/03/2004 - 1:15 pm
For hundreds of years Jews dreamed of returning to Zion. At the end of the 19th century, the dream became reality, and between 1880 and the end of the 20th cen... read more
Re-inventing the Jewish Man: Daniel Boyarin, Michael Gluzman
Contributor(s): Daniel Boyarin | Michael Gluzman
04/03/2004 - 4:00 pm
In his provocative Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (1997), Daniel Boyarin argues that gender roles are ... read more
My Wounded Heart: Ilse Doerry, Martin Doerry
Contributor(s): Ilse Doerry | Martin Doerry
04/03/2004 - 3:45 pm
My Wounded Heart by Martin Doerry is the story of his grandmother, Lilli Jahn, a gifted doctor and mother of five. Divorced by her Aryan husband, she was sent ... read more
My Maimonides: Stefan Reif
Contributor(s): Stefan Reif
04/03/2004 - 3:30 pm
“From Moses until Moses there was none like Moses.” Moses Maimonides, philosopher, commentator, jurist and physician, was born in Cordoba in 1135. T... read more
Meet The Author: Benjamin Markovits
Contributor(s):
04/03/2004 - 1:15 pm
Benjamin Markovits’ novel, The Syme papers, is about genius and failure, and the possibilities and pitfalls of discovery. In this session, to mark th... read more
Literary Lunch: Obsessions
Contributor(s): Ronald Harwood
04/03/2004 - 1:00 pm
In an intriguing session, Ronald Harwood shares a writer’s obsessions of childhood and adolescence and their refusal to be appeased. read more
